[Question]: the class XFILE doesn't exist.

[juliuskopp]

What is your question?

1. I create a class and wanted to use "Share.shareXFiles".
2. I add "import 'package:share_plus/share_plus.dart';"
3. When writting this line : await Share.shareXFiles([XFile(filename)], I have this message : The method 'XFile' isn't defined for the type 'DataShareService'.
4. So I have to add this import "import 'package:cross_file/cross_file.dart';"
5. But now I have this message "package:cross_file/cross_file.dart Depend on referenced packages.dartdepend_on_referenced_packages"

In your example, you don't have the problem because XFile is referenced by this import : 'package:image_picker/image_picker.dart'

In the example below, I have commented the line of the import 'package:cross_file/cross_file.dart' so you can see the problem. If you uncomment the import 'package:cross_file/cross_file.dart'; you'll see the other message.
Thanks.

Code sample :

import 'dart:io';
import 'package:flutter/material.dart';
import 'package:share_plus/share_plus.dart';
// TODO : uncomment the line below to refrence XFile
//import 'package:cross_file/cross_file.dart';

class DataShareService {
void sharingFile({
required String filename,
required BuildContext context,
required String subject,
}) async {

final box = context.findRenderObject() as RenderBox?;

await Share.shareXFiles([XFile(filename)],
    subject: subject,
    sharePositionOrigin: box!.localToGlobal(Offset.zero) & box.size);

}
}

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• I Google'd a solution and I couldn't find it
• I searched on StackOverflow for a solution and I couldn't find it
• I read the README.md file of the plugin
• I am using the latest version of the plugin
• All dependencies are up to date with flutter pub upgrade
• I did a flutter clean
• I tried running the example project

[miquelbeltran]

But now I have this message "package:cross_file/cross_file.dart Depend on referenced packages.dartdepend_on_referenced_packages"

Do what the warning suggests and add the dependency to cross_file, which is an official package from the Flutter team.

[werainkhatri]

Do what the warning suggests and add the dependency to cross_file, which is an official package from the Flutter team.

maybe share_plus should export the package? same as what image_picker does?

https://github.com/flutter/plugins/blob/f55c7ffc6984c75e6b2b6a72a02b48064e0b5bc1/packages/image_picker/image_picker_platform_interface/lib/image_picker_platform_interface.dart#L5

[miquelbeltran]

Good point @werainkhatri a PR with the fix is more than welcome ;)

[werainkhatri]

a PR with the fix is more than welcome

you got it!

[jingluoguo]

you can write import 'package:cross_file/cross_file.dart';